Love makes us do crazy things... Meet Robert Godric, who in a desperate attempt to bring back his wife, Nora, who died of an aggressive brain cancer, invents a way to travel to parallel earths and searches for a living Nora on the infinite number of Earths. Inadvertently, he and his team encounter an alien hivelike race—the Hydra—that is conquering Earth after Earth after Earth. If the Hydra find our version by following Godric back to it, our civilization will not survive the invasion...

Created exclusively for comics, “Nevermore” is a brand-new story from the masterful pen of the New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz, written by Keith Champagne, and gorgeously illustrated by artist Andy Smith. The first issue of the six-issue miniseries will be released March 18, 2009. Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, will distribute a graphic novel collected edition of the individual comics.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS, ARTIST & PUBLISHER:

Dean Koontz is the author of many #1New York Times bestsellers. Previous comics and graphic novels based on his work include “In Odd We Trust”, a Publishers Weekly comics bestseller, and “Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son”.

Keith Champagne began his career working for Marvel Comics in 1993. He quickly found a professional home at rival DC Comics as an artist/inker and writer. His writing work has been featured in titles such as World War III, Arena, Flash, and Superman. Aside from Nevermore, his current projects include reviving The Ghostbusters for publishing company IDW, and launching his creator-owned title, The Mighty, at DC.

Andy Smith has been a comic book artist for over 17 years, having worked for Marvel, DC, Acclaim, Image, and Cross Generation Entertainment. Titles illustrated by Andy include Stormwatch PHD, 52, World War 3, Claw, Red Sonja/Claw, Weapon X, Hawkman, Legion, Green Lantern, The First, Crux, Negation, X-O Man-o-War, Deadly Duo, Aquaman, Spiderman, Blade, Gen X, X-men, and his creator-owned Firstman, to name but a few. Andy is also the author of the books “Drawing Dynamic Comics” and “Drawing American Manga Superheroes”.